Mexico
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Dispatch from Mexico
Tags Share BETWEEN OCTOBER 6TH AND 11TH, A DELEGATION FROM ROBERT F. KENNEDY HUMAN RIGHTS VISITED THREE DIFFERENT REGIONS OF MEXICO TO BRING ATTENTION TO PERSISTENT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. In Ciudad Juárez (state of Chihuahua), the delegation witnessed the impact of widespread violence against women, normalized by impunity. In particular, disappearances of women and high
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Activist Miriam Rodríguez Murdered in Mexico
Tags Share On the night of May 10, which was Mother’s Day in Mexico, Miriam Elizabeth Rodríguez Martínez, a human rights defender and the mother of a disappeared daughter, was shot to death in the state of Tamaulipas. The undersigned organizations express our profound concern about Miriam’s murder and urge Mexican authorities to take immediate
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Rubio Villegas et al. v. Mexico: Mexican Military Checkpoint Turns Deadly
The militarization of Mexico resulted in Bonfilio Rubio Villegas’s needless death.
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RFK Human Rights Petitions IACHR on Extrajudicial Execution of Naua Native
Tags Share (Tlapa de Comonfort, Guerrero – Washington D.C., 12 de enero de 2017) The Centro de Derechos de la Montaña (Tlachinollan), the Centro de Derechos Humanos José María Morelos y Pavión (Centro Morelos) and Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights filed a petition before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights on January 2nd, 2017 against
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RFK Human Rights, CEDIMAC Petition IACHR on Ciudad Juárez Disappearances
The petition filed on behalf of seven women disappeared in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, in 2011 denounces Mexico for failing to prevent, investigate, and prosecute these violent femicides.
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Case of 43 Missing Students in Mexico Continues to Stump Investigators
Tags Share With only three months remaining until the Group of Experts’ mandate expires, the international team tasked with investigating the case of the enforced disappearance of 43 students from Guerrero, Mexico, is facing serious obstacles in their quest to find the truth about the students’ demise in September 2014. A coordinated defamation campaign against
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Mexico: Ongoing Defamation Attacks in the Media
Tags Share Campaign is an Attempt to Hide the Truth and Obstruct Justice There is a coordinated defamation campaign gaining greater coverage in the Mexican media against the Interdisciplinary Group of Independent Experts (GIEI, by its acronym in Spanish). Through an agreement between the Mexican government, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the legal
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Martinez Gutierrez et al. v Mexico: Police Inaction in Juárez Disappearances
Seven Mexican women disappeared over five months. The police did little—and may be complicit in human trafficking.
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Mexico Must Advance Investigation Into 43 Disappeared Ayotzinapa Students
Tags Share On the night of September 26, 2014, students in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero were violently attacked by local police; 43 students were detained and disappeared. The case of the forcibly disappeared students of Ayotzinapa is a painful example of the human rights crisis facing Mexico and has prompted international and country-wide indignation.
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Letter Urges Mexico’s President to Increase Efforts to Find 43 Missing Students
Tags Share October 15, 2015 | Washington – In an open letter to Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights joins leading human rights figures to call on the Mexican government to expend maximum effort and commitment to determine the whereabouts of 43 students of a teacher-training college in Ayotzinapa who were
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Escobar González et al. v. México: Femicide Reform Sought in Mexico
Cristina Escobar González’s murder spotlights ongoing impunity for those who commit violence against women in Mexico.
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Rivera Morales et al. v. Mexico: Femicide Remains Rampant in Mexico
When these seven women were murdered or disappeared, the only thing police could find were excuses not to help.
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